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Ganesh77 Posted 18 years ago
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independent clauses?

0If so, why don't they sound like they can 'stand on their own'?02br
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001 Then the traveler should start to live the new time frame immediately02br
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002 There are some ways to minimize it02br
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003 Last year, the government reported 0-
  

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0An independent clause isn't necessarily complete without a dependent one (which does make the name kind of misleading). " Now the entire thing is an independent/main clause; it just happens to contain a subclause as well. 0-

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  • 0An independent clause isn't necessarily complete without a dependent one (which does make the name kind of misleading).
  • " Now the entire thing is an independent/main clause; it just happens to contain a subclause as well.
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0An independent clause isn't necessarily complete without a dependent one (which does make the name kind of misleading). It depends on what kind of verb you're dealing with, and in no 3 here you have a verb that makes it necessary to have an object - in this case preferably in the form of a subclause: "Last year, the government reported 01del00that the Prime Minister was stepping do
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0So.. it's a case of "when is an independent clause not necessarily 'an independent clause'". Interesting. I understand the principle now at least. 02br
00The original sentence for #3 was: Last year, the government reported that drug use is increasing. 02br
00As for numbers two and three, I'd say they are both independent clauses as they don't begin with a subordinator.
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0The problem is that "reported" is a transitive verb - it requires an object to be complete. You must say what was reported. Then you have an independent clause. I don't agree that some independent clauses require a dependen clause - #3 is an example of an imcomplete verb phrase .0-
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